Documents et rapports
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Firms and Climate Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (anglais)
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a disproportionate burden from climate change, potentially threatening the operations and profitability of firms. Simultaneously, firms in LMICs may contribute...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10644 Date du document: 13 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goicoechea,Ana,Lang,Megan Elizabeth
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Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab : Testing Interventions to Address Firm Constraints to Growth (anglais)
This report summarizes the lessons and achievements from the implementation of ComPEL (The Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab) in FY17-22. ComPEL is an umbrella impact evaluation program set up in partnership...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 177792 Date du document: 1 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goicoechea,Ana,Srinivasan,Nithya
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections - Impact Evaluation Policy Brief (anglais)
In Peru, business safety inspections, related to the risk of fire and collapse, which affect all businesses in the country, are characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. This can...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 175203 Date du document: 4 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections (anglais)
In collaboration with the ministry of housing, construction, and sanitation and the municipality of Lima in Peru, the authors used a randomized experiment to test whether intensive monitoring of inspectors...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 175198 Date du document: 4 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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The Impact of Electronic Recording of Business Inspections on Compliance with Regulatory Standards and Inspectors’ Performance (anglais)
In Peru, the business safety inspection process, a requirement to obtain an operating license, is characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. These inefficiencies disproportionally...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 175199 Date du document: 4 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Bulgaria - Efficiency Analysis of STI Programs : Executive Summary (anglais)
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 168583 Date du document: 23 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marc,Lukasz Marek,Querejazu,Daniel Enrique,Georgieva,Teodora Marinova,Dimitrova,Lyubomira Stoilova,Goicoechea,Ana,Kilinc,Umut
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Bulgaria - Efficiency Analysis of STI Programs (anglais)
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 168583 Date du document: 31 octobre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marc,Lukasz Marek,Querejazu,Daniel Enrique,Georgieva,Teodora Marinova,Dimitrova,Lyubomira Stoilova,Goicoechea,Ana,Kilinc,Umut
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Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment : Evidence from an RCT in Argentina and Colombia (anglais)
This paper evaluates the short-term causal effects of a high-quality, intensive, part-time computer coding bootcamp for women on skill acquisition and employment outcomes. Spots were offered in an oversubscribed...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9721 Date du document: 29 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aramburu,Julian,Goicoechea,Ana,Mobarak,Ahmed Mushfiq
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Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Argentina and Colombia (anglais)
The increase in female labor force participation is among the most salient economic and social transformations in the world over the last fifty years, and Latin America is no exception. In this regard...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 157740 Date du document: 1 janvier 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aramburu,Julian,Goicoechea,Ana
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Less Burden, More Transparency, and Higher Quality : Electronic System for Business Safety Inspections in Peru (anglais)
Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 151049 Date du document: 21 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Goicoechea,Ana
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Preparing surveys for urban upgrading interventions : prototype survey instrument and user guide (anglais)
Slum upgrading projects are designed to provide a package of basic services aimed at improving the living conditions of residents in low-income communities. These typically involve a range of infrastructure...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44467 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goicoechea,Ana
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Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries (anglais)
This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4081 Date du document: 1 décembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes
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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance (anglais)
The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3822 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Manacorda,Marco
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A "research" database on infrastructure economic performance (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)
The authors present an infrastructure database that was assembled from multiple sources. Its main purposes are: (1) to provide a snapshot of the sector as of the end of 2004; and (2) to facilitate quantitative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3643 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana
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How widespread were private investment and regulatory reform in infrastructure utilities during the 1990s? (anglais)
This note provides a snapshot as of 2004 of the share of countries with an independent regulatory agency and with at least some private sector financing of its sectoral investment needs for electricity...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3595 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana